Chapter 3

Silver wakes up to find himself stuck upside down on a snow covered tree. He looks at the tree to see his foot is stuck between 2 branches. He let's out a sigh as he looks down to see snow below him. He hopes that it's not iced over, it would hurt a lot if he gets hurt. He reaches out his hand as he focuses his telekinesis to help him out of the tree and to let him float. He looks around to see that everything is snowed over. Everything is cold too. Silver floats down to the ground and feels his boots touch the ground and dispersed his telekinesis. He turns his head to see if he can kind anyone, but no one was in sight. He let's out another sigh as he feels safe enough to walk.

Silver begins to walk in the snow. Leaving a track behind him as he holds onto his arms for warmth, he half wished that he got Blaze's pyromancy instead of his telekinesis for these types of situations. He walked a mile till he finds a frozen lake. He walks over to the lake and smiles, "At least my day is getting a bit better and I can fish for food."

Silver looks around to find a stick and it took him about a few minutes to find a stick, but it was buried in the snow. It was already cold out and Silver looks at the stick and back at the lake. He feels bad about hunting for food instead of finding sticks for a shelter. He begins to look around for sticks to make a fire.

He walks through to find a cave or something to call a shelter. He goes through the snow as he feels the wind beginning to hit him. It made him stumble back a bit until he kept his grounding thanks to his telekinesis. Going through the snow was hard enough challenge as he soon stops as he hears something running through the snow. He turns around to look around to see nothing. He turns around to be met with white closed eyes looking back at him.

Silver soon drops his sticks as he backs up a bit. He looks at the creature before him. The creature has breasts like a female, but is covered by an outfit that has no coverings for the legs. It's blue with faint white dots on it. A gold bow lays underneath the breast as the breast part is mostly covered minus the top part. Silver could see the top of her breasts as she has her arms squishing her breasts together. He felt himself feel warm inside as he continues on studying the woman before him. She has no mouth from what he sees and her eyebrows are white dots. She wears a blue hood with white fuzz around her face that has deer ears that is white with blue and pink on the inside of the ears and small blue antlers that has a golden silk ribbon tied around the antlers. Silver looks at her arms to see that they are covered with sleeves that droop as it goes down her arms to her hands. There is a lot of detail to her, but Silver notices that her face is from dark blue for the most part till the light part at the throat which is covered by a blue fur that puffs out and its well maintained.

Silver looks at the woman's eyes again and feels himself blushing in embarrassment of checking out the woman. He turns away, "I... I am sorry ma'am. I didn't mean to stare for so long."

The woman tilts her head as she looks at Silver. She puts her hand onto his forehead and pets him. Comforting him that everything is fine.

Silver looks back at the woman and smiles, "My name is Silver the hedgehog, may I have your name?"

The woman straightens out her head and looks at Silver. She speaks as though she is a spirit, "My name is Winter. Nice to meet you, Silver the hedgehog." She removes her hand from Silver's forehead and places it onto her leg. She bows a bit to where she is on the same level as Silver.

"A-Are you human?" Silver asks in concern.

Winter shakes her head, "No, I am not human. I am what you call a creature of the snow lands."

Silver nods before he feels the wind going past him again. He grabs onto his arms with his hands and smiles shyly at Winter, "You don't think that you got a place that I can stay at while warming up?"

Winter picks up Silver bridal style and begins to walk on the snow. Not making any kind of dents or anything.

Silver blushes in embarrassment again from what he is experiencing. He never has been picked up bridal style before. He has been picked up and put on the shoulder, but never have been this embarrassed before. As long as Sonic and Shadow aren't around to see him, he will be fine.

Winter continues on walking till she has reached an iced house that is being kept together by the fire inside, the snow, and the wind. She walks up to the front door and opens it up.

Silver could see that the ice house is actually a log house. He is amazed by how it could look an ice house on the outside, but be a log house on the inside.

Winter goes over to a cushioned couch and places Silver on it before she goes back over to the door and closes it. She turns back to Silver, "Do you like it here?"

Silver smiles and nods, "Of course I do! Very homely."

Winter walks over to Silver and sits next to him, "I am glad that you like it. I don't have many people come here because of the weather or because they claim that I am too friendly with new creatures."

Silver smiles wider, "Well I enjoy your hospitality! Very kind of you."

Winter brings a hand up to her face, "Thank you kindly! I appreciate your compliment!"

Silver looks around the log cabin and sees that there are ice sculptors of Winter with other beings like herself, "What is with the ice sculptors?"

"They are memories of me with my parents. They died when I was younger by witch hunters." Winter says with a calm tone.

"Witch hunters?" Silver looks at Winter concerned.

"Witch hunters are hunters that dress up as witches and pretend to be witches to scare creatures like me and many others into submission before getting killed."

Silver turns his head away before looking back at her without a smile, "Were you ever captured by a witch hunter?"

"2 times, the second time is because I had to go save a friend of mine, but they died in the process of escaping." Winter says while sitting up straight and have her thumbs rolling around each other.

"And the first time? If you don't wish to tell me, you don't have too." Silver says with concern.

Winter laughs a bit, "Curious aren't we?" She turns towards Silver, "It's alright, really. The first time I was captured if because I was being careless and wondering off when I was younger which resulted my parents to get killed in the process."

Silver notices that her voice is soft as though she could break into a song at any moment, but a sudden guilt over fills him as he realizes that he is in a similar situation as her. He doesn't have parents either. He takes in a deep breath and stands up, "I am sorry for bringing you sadness, Winter, but I must be off. I need to find my friends."

"May I come with you?" Winter gets up from the couch.

Silver smiles at her, "Sure!"

Winter and Silver walks over to the door and leaves the house. To find Silver's friends.